| Show A CHICKENS STRANGE FEAT T the 11 rol called out a city are ile I 1 an obstreperous chicken succeeded in calling out our fire department not long since said a citizen of Sa savannah oa aa it was a male bird of the game persuasion and hail had acquired the very bad habit of flying away from home and mounting to an extraordinary hei height lit for a domesticated bird on on one a oc occasion cion when chased by some boys it got badly seared scared and flying up rapidly struck some wires and got tan tangled led u up p in them hopelessly cy by some means or other it shook or disarranged ed a wire which notified the department of a fire and every effort was made to get promptly to the scene of the supposed outbreak no fire bein being discovered it was as evident a falso false al alarm arm had been turned in but the continued scrugg le of the rooster sent in further alarms and caused a general demoralization of the electric service when tile the cause of the disturbance was finally located the bird was nearly dead and its handsome appearance had entirely vanished this is I 1 believe the first case on record of a chicken upsetting electric service service in in this way but the bird although quite a small one succeeded in doing the work quite effectively |
